Pamplona 2006

Experts from 16 countries are working during this week in Pamplona to enhance thepromotion and learning of languages supported by the Government of Navarre. The firstproject will try to reduce the number of drops-out in language courses since half of thestudents enrolled don't finish their courses. The second and third projects will work onthe learning methodological improvements and the fourth one aims at promoting theknowledge of languages among primary schools with the project called "Chain stories".Through these projects the European Union intends that its citizens master two languagesas well as their mother tongue. The new methodologies are aiming for the development ofskills which allow citizens to get by in several languages even though they are not knownin depth.

Anca: It's important to understand that if you learn some specific structures andresources, certain skills partially, in some languages it is as good as knowing itcompletely. This is an new approach to the success of language learning.